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CVE-2022-49393

MEDIUM · 5.5 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-02-26
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 5.18.3 or later.
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57/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: fastrpc: fix list iterator in fastrpc_req_mem_unmap_impl This is another instance of incorrect use of list iterator and checking it for NULL. The list iterator value 'map' will *always* be set and non-NULL by list_for_each_entry(), so it is incorrect to assume that the iterator value will be NULL if the list is empty (in this case, the check 'if (!map) {' will always be false and never exit as expected). To fix the bug, use a new variable 'iter' as the list iterator, while use the original variable 'map' as a dedicated pointer to point to the found element. Without this patch, Kernel crashes with below trace: Unable to handle kernel access to user memory outside uaccess routines at virtual address 0000ffff7fb03750 ... Call trace: fastrpc_map_create+0x70/0x290 [fastrpc] fastrpc_req_mem_map+0xf0/0x2dc [fastrpc] fastrpc_device_ioctl+0x138/0xc60 [fastrpc] __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xa8/0xec invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xd4/0xfc do_el0_svc+0x28/0x90 el0_svc+0x3c/0x130 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa4/0x130 el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190 Code: 14000016 f94000a5 eb05029f 54000260 (b94018a6) ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

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NVD · CPE data
Linux KernelOperating system
Affected:>= 5.18, < 5.18.3

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 5.18.3 or later
Fixed in 5.18.3
Vendor patch git.kernel.org →
Recommended fix High confidence

Linux Kernel 5.18.3 or later

  1. Upgrade the Linux kernel to version 5.18.3 or later to obtain the fix for this vulnerability
  2. If kernel upgrade is not feasible, apply the specific vendor patch commit 2d12905aad462383f4e7a5fdb024d2b7ae2d10cf to the fastrpc driver source code
  3. Rebuild and deploy the kernel or kernel module
  4. Verify the fix resolves the kernel crash by testing fastrpc operations (ioctl calls to fastrpc device)
Caveat Kernel minor version upgrades within 5.18.x typically have minimal breaking changes, but test in staging environment first

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